History for July 6 - On-This-Day.com
Marc Chagall 1887, Satchel Paige 1906, Pierre Cardin 1922
David McCullough 1933 - Author, Ringo Starr 1940 - Musician (Beatles), Shelley Duvall 1949 - Actress ("The Shining")
1754 - Kings College opened in New York City. It was renamed Columbia College 30 years later.
1846 - U.S. annexation of California was proclaimed at Monterey after the surrender of a Mexican garrison.
1917 - Aleksandr Kerensky formed a provisional government in Russia.
1930 - Construction began on Boulder Dam, later Hoover Dam, on the Colorado River.
1946 - Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini was canonized as the first American saint.
1969 - Canada's House of Commons gave final approval to a measure that made the French language equal to English throughout the national government.
1981 - U.S. President Reagan announced he was nominating Arizona Judge Sandra Day O'Connor to become the first female justice on the U.S. Supreme Court.
1994 - Amazon.com, Inc. was founded in Seattle, Washington under the name "Cadabra."
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